Man sentenced to 20 years for wounding four people outside Packy Connors nightspot in Roxbury

By Globe Staff

A Dorchester man who wounded four people when he opened fire as a popular Roxbury bar closed in 2009, was sentenced today to nearly 20 years in prison.

Charkeem Hyatt, 22, was quickly arrested by Boston police after the July 17, 2009 shooting outside the Packy Connors bar on Blue Hill Avenue. At the time of the shooting, police officers were working a paid detail at the nightspot. The city shut the bar down for three days in reaction to the violence.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Patrick Brady sentenced Hyatt to three 12-to-15-year sentences for convictions of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, to be served concurrently.

Brady then imposed a five-year sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony that Hyatt will have to serve after completing the first sentence, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office said.

According to prosecutors, Hyatt used a .40-caliber handgun and fired randomly into the crowd leaving the bar, wounding three women and one man, all of whom were in their 20s.

Hyatt had gotten into an argument with the male victim earlier in the night, but the women had no connection to Hyatt, authorities said. All of the victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

“Those actions threatened the lives and safety of every person on the street that night,” District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a statement. “The jury’s verdict and this sentence prove that this behavior will not be tolerated.”

Hyatt faced the aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charge in three of the shootings and, in the fourth shooting, a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Hyatt was arrested by officers, including an off-duty officer, who chased him onto Woodcliff Street. The firearm was never recovered.